2014.021

Purchase

Purchase

Museum Collections.

1912 - 1925

Date: 1912-1925

4 in

7 in

Good

Notes: Exhibition 2014: Hoboken, Ellis Island, and the Immigrant Experience, 1892-1924 ==== Text on back: 11163. Geography.— The harbor of New York comprises the lower and upper bays, the East River and the southern part of the Hudson River. It may be entered from the Atlantic Ocean either through Long Island Sound or by way of the channels at Sandy Hook. We are in the upper bay or harbor proper, near Ellis Island, where all immigrants who wish to enter through this port are examined. The building before us is the principal Government building on the island. Industries.— Almost all the industries of the United States have been influenced in some way by immigration, though it has a different effect on each. In the metal industries immigration has doubled the output in seven years and since the growth of the business has, up to the present, kept pace with the influx of workers, wages have not been reduced. In the wood-working and glass industries the conditions are about the same as in the metal work. More than half of the labor employed in the coal mines of America is supplied by immigrants. The only causes of complaint in this influx of new citizens are the over-supply of labor in certain industries and the massing of hordes of unskilled foreign workmen in the great cities, especially in New York. The country could take of the millions who pass from Ellis Island to the “Land of Promise” and be the richer and better for them if they were only wisely distributed in the different industrial and agricultural centres. History.—From 1790 until the present day New York City has ranked as the most populous city in the United States. From 1785 until 1789 New York was the national capital. In 1805 the free-school system of the city was organized on a small scale. Refer again to this view when considering Physiography, Civic Betterment, Cities. Immigrant Station, Ellis Island. New York. Station des Immigrants, Ile Ellis, New York. Einwanderer Station, Ellis Insel, New York. Estacion de emigrados, isla Ellis, Nueva York. Invandrare-stationen, Ellis Island, New York. HMMHrpaHTCKan CTanitia, Bjuthcx Ahxhht Hlk>Iopm'b [inaccurate transcription] ==== ==== Original or Copy: Original Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2012-06-13